April Doubleday Shortlisted for Global Sustainability Award | GSFA 2016
GSFA 2016 | April Doubleday | Fairtrade Gold Mining in Colombia
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April Doubleday is an Ethical deigner/maker of Contemporary Jewellery, living on the North Coast of Devon. She uses the coastline, rock formations and the sea as inspiration for her designs.
Her Jewellery is bold and energetic using line, form and colour where every piece is given its own sense of creation and individuality of its own.
April's vision of her company is to strive for complete transparency throughout her business. This transparency spreads from her sourcing of precious metal suppliers and gemstones to the design process with clients. April is committed to ensuring she uses suppliers that have social and environmentally responsible business practises.
Throughout her jewellery collections, April only uses ethical or Fairtrade Certified precious metals in which Fairtrade Gold is only mined in accordance with the Standards set by Fairtrade International.
Encapsulating her strong ethos for ethical mining, back in 2013, April and her Son, back in 2013 visited a gold mine that was Fairtrade Eco certified in Coloumbia, South America. They visited a region which was called Choco where they then met Americo, one of the many miners who work within the Fairtrade/Fairmined guidelines and was mining the gold of her company at the time. April's son filmed footage throughout their trip and within the film Americo explains, in his own words, how he is paid a fair price plus a premium from Fairtrade/Fairmined for his gold. Such payments are then fed directly back into the local community.
The film demonstrates Americo mining in an ecological manner; all health and safety standards are in place, no damaging child labour is used and both men and women mine and pan for gold and platinum.
The miners themselves take responsibility for the safe handling and disoposal of chemicals used in the extraction process whereby seams are backfilled and replanted after they have been exhausted.
Americo claims that he and his fellow miners make every effort to mine in a sustainable manner. This is in contrast to foreign large scale mining operations who, Americo says, do not mine responsibly and thus destroy the local waterways and environment.
Due to the huge success in showcasing her dedication to to Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, Aprils film has recently been shortlisted for the Global Sustainability Awards at BAFTA on the 28th November 2016.
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